If you’re feeling exhausted, and overwhelmed and you aren’t sleeping - and you wonder if you might be depressed, this episode is for you. Bob Whitaker is a journalist who has spent decades investigating psychiatric treatment in the U.S. He won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His book Anatomy of an Epidemic is a New York Times bestseller. And he has a lot to say about why so many mothers are being handed a diagnosis when what they actually need is support. In this episode, Bob traces how women's distress has been medicalized instead of treated as a reasonable response to impossible circumstances. He describes psychiatry as a form of social control - because the entire system directs attention toward individual brains and away from the situations we’re living in. And he shares the results of a New Zealand study on postpartum depression that should have changed how we support new mothers - but it didn’t. For links to references mentioned in this episode, go to https://yourparentingmojo.com/adhd-without-medication Key chapters: 00:00 Why Depression Diagnoses Are Rising in Mothers 01:25 Is Burnout Being Misdiagnosed as Depression? 03:29 Psychiatry as a Form of Social Control 04:26 Why Women's Distress Gets Medicalized 06:47 From Valium to Antidepressants 07:34 Are We Treating the Wrong Problem? 10:49 Depression or a Response to Your Environment? 12:05 The Postpartum Depression Study That Changed Everything 13:33 What Actually Prevented Postpartum Depression 14:33 Is the Problem Your Brain—or Your Situation? 15:00 What Every Burned-Out Mother Needs to Hear Connect with us: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourparentingmojo/ Join our private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2174808219425589 Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/YourParentingMojo Read my blog: https://yourparentingmojo.com/blog/ Check out past audio episodes: https://www.yourparentingmojo.com/episodes #MomBurnout #MentalLoad #Motherhood #BurnoutVsDepression #MaternalMentalHealth #ParentingPodcast #YourParentingMojo #WorkingMoms #PostpartumDepression #MentalHealth #ParentingSupport #MomLife